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by JBE » Mon May 10, 2010 8:24 pm
@Rightontime27:
1: One thing you can do is silence. Seriously, just before you drop your bass in, try dropping out as much of the other sounds as possible. It really gives it a big punch when you go from almost no sound, to heavy bass.
2: It's really all about equalizing for me. I try to keep my kicks and snares from peaking too high. I also usually sidechain my bass and any lower frequency sounds with my kicks so they don't clash. I also tend to use slight low cutting on my kicks and snares to make more room for the bass itself.
3: For the most part the wobble is quite boring. Get some plugins that allow you to add a bit of distortion or something. It also helps to use multiple oscilators on your wobbles and slightly detuning each oscilator so they kind of move around a bit, which can fatten up the sound and give it some more power.
4: It depends what it is you are wanting to change notes with. Is it the bass or another instrument. For basses, it does help to use some legato, or with some vsti's they just call it glide or bend. With this, instead of the notes just changing, they will sort of bend to the next note which can make the transition sound very smooth and cool at the same time.
5: No. With what I'm listening to it on right now I'm getting almost no subbass registering at all. It's pretty weak throughout. You can fix that by just layering a subbass with your wobble bass. 2 or 3 oscillators all set to sine waves makes a pretty general subbass.
6: Depends what program you use. I use FL Studio so sometimes I just use the generic FL Lame mp3 encoder to render out the files. As far as quality, I usually render at 256kbps. A lot of people do 320, but for me it's a sizeable increase in file size compared to the 256 and the average listener most likely doesn't have the equipment to hear any different between a 256 and a 320. If you plan to have this particular track played in sets or on vinyl, it helps to go with 320 cause most dj's do have the equipment to make the difference. You could also look online for some different mp3 or other format encoders and use those to render your files.
I just got back from the hospital. Sitting in a hospital for 37 hours and damn near no sleep and I just got home. Didn't have much time to put together much feedback but I figured this would probably be the most beneficial feedback I could give at the moment to anyone and I just don't have the energy to put much thought into anything at the moment.
As for my previous post. I had some extra time to kill and I managed to make some changes to the track. Added some new stuff, took out some old stuff I still wasn't liking. Did some more eqing, and actually gave it a name. The name seems odd, but this entire track was sort of inspired by watching the movie, "Clockwork Orange" for like the 15th time, and this just sort of popped into my head the other day out of nowhere. Also, the organ stabs were samples I pulled out of a dsf sample pack I got awhile back. My original intent was just listening to different things trying to get some ideas, and I tossed this sample in just to hear it and I really liked it. So after some serious effect routing and bitcrushing, filtering, all kinds of stuff I got a sound I really liked with it. So credit goes to whoever created that and sent it out to the community.
Track is in the sig btw.
